英语听书《白鲸记》第817期

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　　for his smoke is horrible to inhale¹, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time. 因为它那烟气真是难闻，可你又非闻不可，不只如此，你还得暂时在烟气里生活一会儿。

　　It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk² in the vicinity of funereal³ pyres. 它有一种难以言喻的、刺鼻的印度味道，有如火葬堆附近隐约飘来的那股气味一样。

　　It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment⁴; it is an argument for the pit. 它闻起来象是末日审判的左边那股气味一样；这就是肯定有地狱的一个论据。

　　By midnight the works were in full operation. 到了午夜，炼油间的操作可说是达到了高潮。

　　We were clear from the carcass; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense. 我们已经把死尸出清了；风帆也扯起了，风势变强，茫茫的海洋越来越昏黑。

　　But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals⁵ forked forth⁶ from the sooty flues, 可是，那片黑暗却被猛烈的火舌舔光了，火舌时不时地从烟焰里窜出来。

　　and illuminated⁷ every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire. 象是一种著名的希腊火，把索具里每根高高的绳索都照得通亮。

　　The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed. 这艘着了火似的大船继续向前驶去，仿佛毫无悔恨地衔命去报一件不共戴天的大仇。

　　So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, 这就象那两艘载足了松脂和硫磺的勇敢的海特里沃特和卡那利斯的二桅船，

　　issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates⁸, and folded them in conflagrations⁹. 深更半夜驶离了他们的港埠，用阵阵的大火焰做风帆，去冲击土耳其人的巡洋舰，把他们都卷进了大火里。

　　The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth¹⁰ in front of them. 打开炼油间顶，舱口就成了一个大火炉。

　　Standing¹¹ on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship's stokers. 站在大火炉旁的，总是那些捕鲸船的火夫，也就是那些个阴差鬼神似的异教徒的标枪手。

　　With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing¹² masses of blubber into the scalding pots, 他们拿着粗大的铁叉柄，一会儿把那些咝咝发响的鲸脂块戳到滚烫的炼锅里，

　　or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted¹³, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet. 一会儿搅动一下下边的炉火，直搅得那蛇舌似的火焰一阵卷旋，径从灶门冲了出来，碰上他们双脚。

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